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Hello Phil - 

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>>> No rush, it will be there as long as I am here (maybe
>>> longer). 

PM>>  Well, let's hope that's a substantially long while. 

>> Nice of you to say that. I am not able to predict that with
>> any degree of accuracy when I will go offline. My daughter
>> hosts the website on her server. She might keep it online
>> for awhile (nostalgia), or she might not 

PM> Well, I say that not merely for the site (which has been
PM> very useful tho I've only been able to get there a few
PM> times recently) but for the person behind it (sometimes
PM> forgotten in this technological age) -- and for all the
PM> times you've generously answered questions, and even long
PM> before that when I was only lurking and you were posting
PM> about old machines. 

Again, nice of you to have noticed. 

PM> But geez, Charles, we don't want to turn this into a
PM> premature eulogy -- I'm much further down the road than you
PM> are and keep re-discovering, whenever I think the old heap
PM> is shot, that there're lots of miles still left to go. 

Yes, promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. 

PM> So plenty of time on the schedule to rage away. [g] 

I try. ;-) 

>> (I am her "Ghost in the Machine"). 

PM> I've always liked that -- "Ghost in the Machine". From
PM> Arthur Koestler? 

No, but after checking to see who Koestler was it would make a
good story if I claimed that it was. :-) 

When my children began buying their own computers and getting
connected to the Internet they mentioned that each time they
sit at their machine they look into the monitor and believe
that I am 'out there' somewhere on the 'net'. I volunteered
"The Ghost in the Machine" to describe this and they agreed
that long after I am gone they will believe that I am still
'out there', the ghost in the machine. 

I had heard this for the first time from the movie "Brazil".
Apparently that movie would agree with Koestler's views in his
essay? The sound clip
http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/music/ereiamjh.wav is
the head of government 'Intellgence' explaining how he
remembers the code for his private elevator. 'JH' having been
the younger man's father who had worked for many years with the
older man speaking in the sound clip. 'The Ghost in the
Machine' caught my attention for some reason and my family
accepted this as the best way to describe me. 

There is a Japanese anime now where a female cyborg literally
becomes a part of the Internet also titled "The Ghost in the
Machine" that is somewhat popular with younger people. 

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